Early Medallic Art Served The Artists

IN RESEARCHING the early activities of what was to become Medallic Art Company in preparation for a history of the company, and the two Weil Brothers – Henri and Felix – one fact became quite evident. The pair continued to do what they had done for as long as they had been in New York City. They served at the direction of sculptors.

The Weils acquired art training in different ways. Henri had apprenticed to sculptor George Wagner, married to their sister, and served as his assistant for four years. Later Felix was also apprenticed to his brother-in-law as well. Each morning their job was to unwrap the clay model their brother-in-law was working on. At the end of the day they would moisten the clay and wrap the clay for the night.

Odd jobs around the studio occupied their daytime activities. It was impossible, however, to work for a sculptor and not observe the techniques and learn the ability to model the clay into final form. Henri was assigned small parts to model, which would be applied to a larger model. Later Felix did the same, perhaps inspiring him to become a sculptor. He enrolled at New York’s Cooper Union for nighttime studies.

At Cooper Union the pair met other aspiring sculptors, Felix’s fellow students. Not only did these people become close friends to the Weil brothers, these same artists were to gain fame later in life. While sculptors were competitors for art commissions, they tended to congregate in New York City, center of American business at the turn of the 20th century.

After leaving the Wagner studio Henri worked for a Belgian sculptor creating statuary for the 1892-93 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. When he returned to New York he is employed by a sculptural firm preparing all the decorative work for the Waldorf Hotel.

Felix struck out on his own, left his brother-in-law and went to work for sculptor Alex Doyle, who had a commission for a Yorktown monument. After a brief period at Cooper Union, Felix also studied at night at the National Academy of Design. As work at Doyle’s studio declines he applied to Philip Martiny, who also had commissions for work at the Columbian Expo. He is sent to Chicago with Martiny‘s models, ultimately to work in the same building with his brother, each for a different sculptor.

Following a bicycle accident in Chicago, Felix spends a year in Mexico City, then returns to New York City to form a sculpture business with Jules Edouard Roiné, a partnership, Roiné & Weil to last for a decade.

Henri joins the Deitsch Brothers, ladies handbag manufacturers, as a sculptor for the fine decorative silverwork attached to their handbags, then in fashion. As often happens, fashions change neglecting the need for such decoration. Meanwhile Henri, at his employers’ insistence, imported the first Janvier pantograph to America.

To save his job, Henri suggested what he knew best: solicit work from sculptors for work for the new Janvier. Success was slow at first, but sculptors started bringing their models to Henri to cut dies to strike medals. This work from sculptors lead to the beginning of Medallic Art Company.

What I have learned was the procedure of how the Weils obtained work after they acquired ownership of the Janvier and the company name. The artists brought the work to the Weils. They knew the Weils as friends, and as part of the sculptural community in New York City.

The sculptors drove the business. This was to continue for two decades. The Weils were serving in a capacity they knew well, and did well. They could take a sculptor’s bas-relief model or models and do whatever the artist wanted, cast a galvano metal relief, or make the dies and have medals struck. The Weils had taken their talents from sculptors’ assistants to furnishing a finished sculptural product at the highest level of sculptural accomplishment.

Below is a list of 63 sculptors for whom the Weils did work – galvano casts or die-struck medals — that first two decades of the firm.  Later, after the Weils had hired Clyde Curlee Trees in 1919, he compiled a list of sculptors in 1927 who could be added to this list, prospects for new work for the Weils’ talents. Both lists follow.

Artists of MACO Medals

First Two Decades

Robert Ingersoll Aitken  (1878-1949)
Evelyn Longman Batchelder  (1874-1954)
Chester Beach  (1881-1956)
Gutzon Borglum  (1867-1941)
John Joseph Boyle  (1852-1917)
Victor David Brenner  (1871-1924)
George Thomas Brewster (1862-1943)
Richard Edwin Brooks  (1865-1919)
Roger Noble Burnham (1876-1962)
Henry Kirke Bush-Brown (1857-1935)
Charles Calverley  (1833-1914)
Pierre J. Cheron  or Pierrez Cheron (?)
Gail Sherman Corbett  (1871-1952)
Russell Gerry Crook  (1869-1955)
Leonard Crunelle  (1872-1944)
Ulysses S.J. Dunbar  (1862-1927)
Ulric Ellerhussen  (1879-1957)
Paul Fjelde  (1892-1987)
John Flanagan  (1865-1952)
James Earle Fraser  (1876-1953)
Laura Gadin Fraser  (1889-1966)
Daniel Chester French  (1850-1931)
Johanes Sophus Gelert  (1852-1923)
Louis Albert Gudebrod  (1872-1961)
Ernest Eimer Hannan  (1875-1945)
Jonathan Scott Hartley  (1845-1912)
Eli Harvey  (1860-1957)
Ernest Bruce Haswell  (1889-1965)
Henry Hering  (1874-1949)
Anna Hyatt Huntington  (1876-1973)
John Milton Jehu   (fl 1912-13)
Jeno Juszko  (1880-1954)
Thomas Hudson Jones  (1892-1969)
Gozo Kawamura (1886-1950)
Charles Keck  (1875-1951)
Ernest Wise Keyser  (1876-1959)
Isidore Konti  (1862-1938)
H. Augustus Lukeman  (1871-1935)
Edward McCartan  (1879-1947)
R. Tait McKenzie  (1867-1938)
Herman Atkins MacNeil  (1866-1947)
Paul Manship (1885-1966)
Joseph Maxwell Miller (1877-1933)
John Mowbray-Clarke  (1869-1953)
Josephine W. Newlin  (?)
Allan Newman (1875-1940)
M. Devoe White Peden [Mrs.] (?)
Attilio Piccirilli   (1868-1945)
Bela Lyon Pratt  (1867-1917)
George DuPont Pratt (1869-1935)
Steven Augustus Rebeck  (1891-1975)
Ulysses A  Ricci  (1888-1960)
Jules Edouard Roiné (1857-1916)
Augustus Saint-Gaudens  (1848-1907)
Hans Schuler (1874-1951)
Janet Scudder  (1869-1940)
Theodore Spicer-Simson  (1871-1959)
Jonathan M. Swanson   (1888-1963)
Lorado Taft (1860-1936)
Fred Martin Torrey  (1884-1967)
Adolph Weinman  (1870-1952)
Julia Bracken Wendt  (1871-1942)
Emil Robert Zettler  (1878-1946)

Additional Artists 
Trees Published in 1927

Mrs. Oakes Ames
Caroline Peddle Ball
Madeline A. Bartlett
Paul Bartlett
Edward Berge
Roger Nobel Burnham
Jules Leon Butensky
Gaetano Cecere
Rene Chambellan
Edwardo Conta
Joseph Coletti
Henri Crenier
Jorgen C. Dreyer
Antony de Francisci
Louisa Eyre
Robert Everhart
Sally James Farnam
Beatrice Fenton
Alexandra Finta
Edwin Frey
Harriett Frishmuth
Sherry Fry
Emil Fuchs
John Gregory
Beatrice Fox Griffith
Francis Grimes
Fredric V. Guinzburg
Charles Andrew Hafner
C.A. Hamann
John Hancock
Walter Hancock
Rachel M. Hawes
Leon Hermant
Frederic C. Hibbard
Charles Hinton
Malvina Hoffman
Victor S. Holm
Karl Hlava
Mrs. William Fetch Kelley
Josephine Kern
Henry Hudson Kitson
Isidore Konti
Gaston Lachaise
Anna Coleman Ladd
Albert Lasalle
Jack Lambert
Lee Lawrie
Arthur Lee
Alfred Lenz
George Lober
Frederick W. MacMonnies
Sue Watson Marshall
Joseph Martino
Herman Matzen
Harriett H. Mayor
Alfred Mewett
May Mott-Smith-Small
Mary Mowbray-Clarke
Joseph C. Motto
Eli Nadelman
Berthold Nebel
Josephine W. Nevins
Charles H. Niehaus
Violet Oakley
Sashka Paeff
Ernesto Bigni del Pratta
Ferrucio Piccirilli
Furio Piccirilli
Albin Polasek
Phinister Proctor
Brenda Putnam
Edmund T. Quinn
Frederick G. R. Roth
Charles Cary Rumsey
Antonio Salemme
Victor Salvatore
Anton Schaaf
Otto Scheizer
Ruth Sherwood
Emil Siebern
Walter A. Sinz
Karl F. Skoog
Ishmael Smith
Mrs. Lindsey M. Sterling
Eliza Talbott Taylor
Count Leo Tolstoy
Leilah Usher
Bessie Potter Vonnoh
Albert Weiner
Alice Morgan Wright
Enid Yandell
Albert C. Young
Mahonri M. Young
Marco Zim

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Give Santa a Medal

Santa with Medal

’Twas two days before Christmas,
And my gift list complete.
Save one so important,
It had to be neat.

The gift I was missing,
The one to be handy,
For the spirit of Christmas,
So good for the family.

For the jolly ol’ man,
Who arrives Christmas night.
Himself good and generous.
Choose a gift that’s just right!

He travels a great distance,
To bring everyone good cheer.
What kind of a present
Would Santa hold dear?

No gingerbread houses,
No frilly white blouses.
No Hansel, no Gretel.
Give Santa a medal.

No milk, and no cookies,
By the tree and the rest.
Give Santa a medal,
He deserves just the best.

His effort rewarded,
In a box with red bow.
Give Santa a medal.
He’s our Christmas He-Ro!

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Medallic Art Company’s Creations Found in Art Museums

So many of Medallic Art Company’s early products have ended up in museums around the world. Why? They weren’t created purposefully for museums, rather the early medals and medallic items the company produced were by American artists who were, or who later became, famous. Their medals showcased their collectible bas-relief work.

Also, medals are as desired by museums as they are by individuals. They are miniature works of art. While an art institution’s walls may be covered with paintings, and the sculpture courts filled with statues, every institution always has room for another medal. The passion for acquisition remains strong and continuing.

Medallic Art Company’s founders, Henri and Felix Weil, were sculptor’s assistants. When they developed the business their only customers were sculptors, often the sculptors the Weils had worked for previously. Every medal made for the first two decades was the work of a fine artist.

In 1914 the American Museum of Public Safety Edward H. Harriman Medal was first struck by Tiffany – and later by Medallic Art. This medal is found in museums because of the fame of its creator, sculptor James Earle Fraser, and the artistic nature the designer-medallist treated his subject (MAco 1914-012).

In 1940 the firm made its first medal directly for an art museum, in this case the Webster S. Rhoades Medallion for the Virginia Museum of Fine Art. The artist was Concetta Scaravaglione (1900-1970), a New York sculptor (MAco 1940-006).

Then after World War II the Art Institute of Chicago commissioned famed sculptor David Smith (1906-1965) to create for them a medallion in honor of benefactors Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan. Medallic Art struck this as well (MAco 1956-020).

After that, in the 1960s and later, art museums have called on Medallic Art Company to produce medals they can use to honor patrons, benefactors, prominent exhibits, new building dedications and opening celebrations of many kinds. Three medals have been made for the Metropolitan Museum in New York City. To a medal for the Springville Museum of Art for their American Bicenennial Medal ((MAco 1975-227).

Dozens and dozens have been made for art museums by Medallic Art ever since. The flood gates were open. Perhaps a lot of this medallic work came to the firm – not only for its reputation – but also because Art is our middle name.

Yale Museum

This weekend I attended the opening of the new Art Museum at Yale University. After 14 years in rebuilding the new home occupies a full block on the campus at Yale. The University’s coin and medal collection was formerly in the university library. It was moved to the Art Museum, more for security purposes than anything else. Now it occupies a very modern office with an adjacent room named for a famed Yale alumnus and sculptor, Bela Lyon Pratt.

I met with the curator and a special tour prior to week-long Opening Celebrations. Here is my report:

Yale Numismatic Department Reopens in New Art Museum

Bela Lyon Pratt would be proud. The numismatic department in Yale University’s newly refurbished and expanded Art Museum is named in honor of the Boston sculptor who numismatists know as the designer-sculptor of the incuse Indian Head series of gold half and quarter eagle coins of 1908-1929.

Pratt, a Yale alumnus, was also the creator of sculpture on the Yale campus including a heroic statue of Nathan Hale. An exhibit of two dozen of Pratt’s coins and medals is in the featured showcase at the entrance to the coin and medal department. For years this group of Pratt’s coins and medals were exhibited just outside the university president’s office, so there is great pride in a favorite son’s numismatic accomplishments at the highest university level.

Bela Lyon Pratt plaque

Above that showcase is a cast bronze plaque bearing Pratt’s portrait in a three-quarter standing view, the 1910 creation of his student, Richard Henry Recchia. That very plaque was familiar to me, as I had auctioned it May 14, 1989 (Collectors Auction Limited #31 lot 295) with a full page description and its illustration on the catalog’s cover.

The plaque was purchased by New York City numismatist Tony Terranova who hung it on his dining room wall. I mentioned this plaque in conversation with Yale curator William E. Metcalf as early as 2008. “I want that plaque for the museum.” said Bill. I gave him Tony’s contact information and Bill negotiated its purchase. Tony graciously gave up ownership and possession for such a permanent and important purpose to serve as the keystone exhibit at Pratt’s namesake numismatic department.

Actually two rooms, the coin and medal department is a combination office-vault, and a study room, which is officially the Bela Lyon Pratt Study Room. Here is where the library is located with book shelves 15 feet high attained by a moveable library ladder on three sides of the long room. Library table in the center with 16 chairs where university students — and visiting scholars — examine the department’s treasures, drawn from both coin cabinets and library shelves.

Outside these rooms is the exhibit area assigned to the coin and medal department. At present with six showcases now filled with some of Bill’s choice items from the collection’s ancient coins. This area is open to the public for viewing at all time the museum is open.

The collection contains nearly 100,000 items, nearly half of which are ancient coins, but with extensive holdings across the spectrum of numismatics. The collection is the accumulated accretion from over 200 years of alumni donations dating from the early formation of the university itself in 1802. But curator Metcalf points out it is not all alumni donations, as specific collections have come from California and elsewhere for a variety of reasons.

Acquiring the same items two or more times is difficult to avoid, explained Bill. For example they have four sets of The Society of Medalists, the leading art medal series in America, now ideally located in an Art Museum.

The collection was not always blessed with such a home. It had been housed in a special room in the Sterling Library at the center of the Yale campus. A similar configuration of vault-office room, its second home was the numismatic library, last administered by numismatist John Burnham, who left in 1995. For reasons of poor security — the collection’s Brasher Doubloon and others had disappeared over the years. Fortunately the Brasher Doubloon was later recovered (and sold at auction).

Transferring the coin collection to the Art Museum made sense. But the Sterling Library demanded to retain possession of the numismatic books. Bill had to start building a numismatic library all over again. While deep in ancient numismatics, the library has not grown to full capacity for modern numismatics. [Note to current authors: if your book covers important references to art and numismatics then a copy could be donated here particularly for university level study.]

Dick Johnson and Bill Metcalf

Curator William E. Metcalf, is the former chief curator at the American Numismatic Society and long involved in academic numismatics. In fact, his curriculum vitae — academic record of educational positions, publications, speeches, professional services, honors and awards — is nine pages long, the longest I have observed in the numismatic field. Those are rare credentials!

In fact, he holds two positions at Yale — a rare situation at the university! He is Professor Adjunct of Classics and also Ben Lee Damsky Curator of Coins and Medals. He teaches classes obviously in classics for Yale students and also has the title and keys to the coin and medal department in the Art Museum.

Bill is affable and extremely knowledgeable, such a delightful conversationalist. Here is someone, I found, who could discourse on just about any level of numismatics. Ancient numismatics (outside my knowledge) to esoteric subjects as the use of the Janvier reducing machine in America (of which I am conversant), Bill is expert in all. Right man for the position as coin and medal curator at such a prestigious institution. (Can we now thank those thousands of donations by alumni over the years at this point?)

The new Art Museum is an amalgamation of three buildings. The old Yale Art Gallery is the centerpiece, it took over Street Hall to one side, and an entirely new building was constructed on the other side, the modern Kahn Building. To the credit of the architects they have merged all three into one large showplace. It occupies one entire block on Chapel Street in New Haven (despite its singular address 1111 Chapel) it actually has a street running through the middle of the New building!

Yale Museum

The Pratt Coin and Medal Department with vaulted windows looks out on both Chapel Street and High street tunneling through the building at street level.

On my first visit to the New Art Museum yesterday I found it ample. Here is where expansion can occur for the next 200 years. Here is where scholars can be drawn for future studies. Here is where students with open minds can be filled with the knowledge of art — and for our interest — with numismatic knowledge. Here is where the public can come and see the treasures of the ages. We are now satisfied the numismatic department was moved from the library to an art museum for all the right reasons. Good move.

This week, in week-long celebration of the reopening of the museum, artists, academics and friends will gather to join with Yale in celebration of a vibrant new institution. The Art Museum has a new home.

I had a chance to chat with the institution’s director, Jock Reynolds, before I left. The Art Museum is in very competent hands at every level.

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Hall of Fame Series — The Most Successful Medal Program

I was once asked to describe the Hall of Fame Series of medals in one sentence.  I wrote “One of the most popular series of medals in the world.” I should have included the word “portrait.”

Portrait medal series had existed in Europe long before. Swiss engraver Jean Dassier (1676-1763) worked in France where he created a 72-medal series of Famous French Celebrities, then moved on to England to engrave a series of British Kings and Queens.

In America the U.S. Mint struck medals of army and naval heroes at the discretion of the U.S. Congress. These were more single-issue medals that had a similarity of size and theme that seamed to fall into a series.

They struck medals bearing the portrait of presidents as they were inaugurated late in the 19th century, but overlooked, at first, earlier presidents.

Even America’s two 20th century medal series, Circle of Friends of the Medallion and The Society of Medallists overlooked portraits. They had no rule against portraits in either series, but few bore portraits.

There had been no true American portrait series until Presidential Art Medals, of Ohio, issued a series of U.S. presidents, in half dollar size, created by a top American sculptor and struck as fine art medals by Medallic Art Company.

The success of that series led to a second – honoring U.S. States – each of which bore a portrait of their most famous son, then a third series on Signers of the Declaration of Independence. All three series were created by one artist, Ralph J. Menconi (1915-1972) and all three series bore portraits on every medal, all of half dollar size, convenient for collecting, placing in an album, as collectors had done with coin series.

The success of President Art’s three series got everyone thinking about other potential medal series. In New York City, the Hall of Fame series was a natural for a medal series.

The Hall of Fame honors the most famous Americans chosen by a select group of judges and sponsored by New York University. The first election was held in 1896, and elections were held every four years thereafter.

Bronze statues of the honorees were installed along a Colonnade partially circling a building designed by famed architect Stanford White at the University’s Morningside Heights campus. Niches for 102 statues appear on both sides of the Colonnade walkway.

Once a person was elected to the Hall of Fame – the world’s first such hall of fame now widely copied by other organizations and fields – a statue was commissioned to be created slightly oversize by a a prominent American sculptor. Once cast in bronze, it was installed in its own niche in that outdoor colonnade.

I cannot say for certain who came up with the idea first, I suspect it was Medallic Art’s president Bill Louth, but it was a brilliant concept. In 1962 he formed a coalition to sponsor and market fine art medals of these most famous Hall of Fame Americans. If it was Bill Louth’s program it was in imitation of one by his uncle, Clyde Curle Trees who created The Society of Medallists, three decades earlier in 1930.

The coalition consisted of New York University, the owner of the Hall of Fame, the National Sculpture Society who would furnish an art committee, the Medallic Art Company, which would manufacture the medals, and the Coin and Currency Institute which would market the medals.

Over the next 13 years, 96 medals were created by 42 sculptors, predominately members of the National Sculpture Society. While the design was left to the artist each submission had to pass the approval of the Art Committee composed of at least five of the artists’ sculptural peers.

Rules for the medal design were simple. It had to be a portrait on the obverse, significant scene from that subject’s accomplishment for the reverse plus lettering on either side, in legend or inscription, HALL OF FAME FOR GREAT AMERICANS AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY.

Medals were struck in two sizes. A large 3-inch (76mm) bronze only, and a small 1¾-inch (44mm) size in bronze and silver. The silver medals were serially numbered.

If I had to name the persons most responsible for the success of this series if would be Julius Lauth (1913-1991),  art director at Medallic Art Company and Robert Friedberg (1912-1963) owner of Coin and Currency Institute. Lauth (no relation to  Bill Louth, just a similarity of last names to the despair of our company telephone operators) kept on top of issuing commissions to qualified sculptor-medalists, all 96 commissions.

Julius knew who was available and who would have an empathy for the subject. For the theologians, for example, he would choose a sculptor with sympathetic religious beliefs. Or of similar ethic or background heritage as the American portrayed in a relief work of art.

Julius had a dossier on each artist in his head. He was a masterful art director. Artists adored him, not only for the generous commissions he bestowed but also for his gentle demeanor and useful design suggestions. He never gave orders to artists, he was always attuned to their creative egos. In return, artists would do anything to please Julius, even if it meant another day or two completely remodeling a medal design he had briefly suggested.

But of paramount importance, if the sculptor who prepared the bronze bust in the Hall of Fame Colonnade was still alive, he would commission that artist for the medal. Such artist would already have the images still in his mind. It would be a superb companion piece to compliment their heroic sculpture in medallic form.

And in one case, where a sculptor died, as had Laura Gardin Fraser, Julius  had to retrieve what she had accomplished to that point and reassign it to an artist with similar style and aptitude, Karl Gruppe.

I also remember in a conversation with Julius he was aware of the medal sequence, commissioning lesser known honorees, holding back some more popular ones for the last of the series. He wanted to maintain collector interest right up to the end.

Robert Friedberg was a genius who build a coin dealership following World war II into a numismatic institution. His knowledge of the field, and of marketing, led him to create a coin department, a leased department in a department store. He emulated the Marcus organization which had the philatelic department in Gimbels.

In New York City at the flagship Gimbels, Friedberg establish a coin department right next to the stamp department on the first floor.  To justify the high rent, he supplied the coin department with plenty of numismatic material on a continuing basis.

The success of a New York department store led to opening coin departments in other Gimbels stores around the country. At the height of the Friedberg expansion he had coin departments in 38 states. Purchases at these departments were typical gift items, often called the “grandmother trade.” Hall of Fame medals would be ideal gifts although many adult collectors would obtain these for themselves.

Bill Louth and Bob Friedberg worked out the details of the Hall of Fame series to maximize exposure, sales and profits and to level out the workload for both organizations. They settled on a schedule of six or eight new medals a year, in the two sizes, with a silver version only in the small size, and delivery of enough quantity to supply all thirty-some-odd coin departments throughout the country. And they intended to maintain that schedule.

Each organization promoted the series. Medallic Art issued a five-inch square brochure prepared by the firm’s advertising agency. It was reported to have won awards but didn’t sell many medals. In contrast Coin and Currency issued a much thinner same-size brochure which helped sell medals and the series, but didn’t win any art awards.

Bob Friedberg died soon after the program started. The business continued, however, under his widow, Goldie and his brother, Jack Friedberg. As a family business, it was ultimately controlled by Bob’s two sons Ira and Arthur Friedberg.

In the 1980’s New York University sold their Morningside campus to City College of New York. The status of the Hall of Fame was – and is still – in limbo. Since that time no elections have been held, no new statues have been erected, and no new medals issued. Ninety-eight of the 102 niches are filled, only four remain open. Four names have been elected for those openings, however.

Visitors to New York City can still travel to Morningside Heights and walk the Colonnade, viewing the magnificent statues overlooking the Hudson River. Or they can own a a set of fine art medals created by some of the most talented medalists of the 20th century.

For the hundreds of collectors who have 90 or more of these medals they would like to have the medals created for the last honorees who have been elected, even if their statue is not in the Colonnade. That would give some closure to the series.

Below is a list of medals in order of issue, the MAco catalog number and the Colonnade location. Pictures, artists names, other data and a brief note I wrote in 2004 can be found here: www.medalcollectorsorg/Guides/HFGA.html

A gallerie of many of this series can be found here: www.medallic.com/galleries/famous_americans_gallery.php

Hall of Fame Medals Series

Position	Issue Date	Name	Die Number	©
26	1963	Benjamin Franklin Medal. . . . .	63-1-2	1962
31	1963	Abraham Lincoln Medal. . .	63-1-3	1963
3	1963	John James Audubon Medal .	63-1-4	1962
16	1963	Walter Reed Medal. . . . .	63-1-5	1963
59	1963	Henry David Thoreau Medal.	63-1-6	1963
91	1963	Mark Twain Medal . . . . .	63-1-7	1963
79	1963	Roger Williams Medal . . .	63-1-8	1963
27	1963	George Washington Medal. .	63-1-9	1963
30	1963	Thomas Jefferson Medal . .	63-1-10	1962
88	1963	James Fenimore Cooper. . .	63-1-11	1963
80	1963	Mark Hopkins Medal . . . .	63-1-12	1963
70	1963	Susan B. Anthony Medal . .	63-1-13	1963
82	1963	Henry Ward Beecher Medal .	63-1-14	1964
5	1963	Samuel F.B. Morse Medal. .	63-1-15	1963
61	1963	Stephen C. Foster Medal. .	63-1-16	1964
93	1963	Edgar Allen Poe Medal. . .	63-1-17	1964
65	1963	Peter Cooper Medal . . . .	63-1-18	1964
4	1963	Eli Whitney Medal. . . . .	63-1-19	1964
53	1963	Ulysses S. Grant Medal . .	63-1-20	1964
58	1964	Edward A. MacDowell Medal.	63-1-21	1964
77	1964	Alice Freeman Palmer Medal	63-1-22	1964
94	1964	George Bancroft Medal. . .	63-1-23	1964
44	1964	Joseph Story Medal . . . .	63-1-24	1964
18	1964	Josiah Willard Gibbs Medal	63-1-25	1964
43	1965	John Marshall Medal. . . .	63-1-26	1964
56	1965	Robert E. Lee Medal. . . .	63-1-27	1964
11	1965	Maria Mitchell Medal . . .	63-1-28	1965
21	1965	Thomas Alva Edison Medal .	63-1-29	1965
81	1965	Phillips Brooks Medal. . .	63-1-30	1965
97	1965	Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr..	63-1-31	1965
60	1966	Daniel Boone Medal . . . .	63-1-32	1966
75	1966	Sylvanus Thayer Medal. . .	63-1-33	1966
96	1966	John Greenleaf Whittier. .	63-1-34	1966
40	1966	William Penn Medal . . . .	63-1-35	1966
32	1966	Daniel Webster Medal . . .	63-1-36	1966
38	1966	Patrick Henry Medal. . . .	63-1-37	1966
6	1966	Robert Fulton Medal. . . .	63-1-38	1966
15	1966	William Thomas Morton. . .	63-1-39	1966
39	1966	Grover Cleveland Medal . .	63-1-40	1966
12	1966	George Westinghouse Medal.	63-1-41	1966
13	1966	Louis Agassiz Medal. . . .	63-1-42	1966
42	1966	Woodrow Wilson Medal . . .	63-1-43	1967
20 & 22	1967	Wilbur & Orville Wright. .	63-1-44	1967
95	1967	William Cullen Bryant. . .	63-1-45	1967
74	1967	Mary Lyon Medal. . . . . .	63-1-46	1967
57	1967	David Glasgow Farragut . .	63-1-47	1967
37	1967	James Monroe Medal . . . .	63-1-48	1967
78	1967	Emma Willard Medal . . . .	63-1-49	1967
84	1968	William E. Channing Medal.	63-1-50	1968
99	1968	Ralph Waldo Emerson Medal.	63-1-51	1968
72	1968	Jane Addams Medal. . . . .	63-1-52	1968
55	1968	John Paul Jones Medal. . .	63-1-53	1968
101	1968	Irving Medal. .	63-1-54	1968
64	1968	Gilbert C. Stuart Medal. .	63-1-55	1968
45	1968	James Kent Medal . . . . .	63-1-56	1968
41	1968	Theodore Roosevelt Medal .	63-1-57	1968
69	1969	Frances Elizabeth Willard.	63-1-58	1969
14	1969	William C. Gorgas Medal. .	63-1-59	1969
25	1969	Thomas Paine Medal . . . .	63-1-60	1969
87	1969	Sidney Lanier Medal. . . .	63-1-61	1969
33	1969	James Madison Medal . . .	63-1-62	1969
102	1970	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	63-1-63	1970
48	1969	Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr..	63-1-64	1970
68	1969	Edwin Thomas Booth Medal .	63-1-65	1970
90	1970	John Lothrop Motley Medal.	63-1-66	1970
98	1970	James Russell Lowell Medal	63-1-67	1970
10	1970	Simon Newcomb Medal. . . .	63-1-68	1970
76	1970	Booker T. Washington Medal	63-1-69	1970
66	1970	Augustus St-Gaudens Medal.	63-1-70	1970
83	1970	Horace Mann Medal. . . . .	63-1-71	1970
36	1970	Alexander Hamilton Medal .	63-1-72	1971
35	1970	Andrew Jackson Medal . . .	63-1-73	1971
92	1971	Francis Parkman Medal. . .	63-1-74	1971
1	1971	Elias Howe Medal . . . . .	63-1-75	1971
71	1971	Lillian D. Wald Medal. . .	63-1-76	1971
28	1971	John Adams Medal . . . . .	63-1-77	1971
80	1971	Walt Whitman Medal . . . .	63-1-78	1971
9	1971	James Buchanan Eads Medal.	63-1-79	1971
34	1972	John Quincy Adams Medal. .	63-1-80	1972
54	1972	T.J. Stonewall Jackson . .	63-1-81	1972
7	1972	Asa Gray Medal . . . . . .	63-1-82	1972
63	1972	James A.M. Whistler. . . .	63-1-83	1972
17	1972	Joseph Henry Medal . . . .	63-1-84	1972
85	1972	Jonathan Edwards Medal . .	63-1-85	1972
46	1973	Rufus Choate Medal . . . .	63-1-86	1973
50	1973	William Tecumseh Sherman .	63-1-87	1973
23	1973	Albert A. Michelson Medal.	63-1-88	1973
29	1973	Henry Clay Medal . . . . .	63-1-89	1973
24	1973	George Washington Carver .	63-1-90	197x
67	1973	Charlotte S. Cushman Medal	63-1-91	1974
62	1974	George Peabody Medal . . .	63-1-92	1974
8	1974	Matthew Fontaine Maury . .	63-1-93	1974
89	1974	Harriet Beecher Stowe . .	63-1-94	1975
100	1974	Nathaniel Hawthorne Medal.	63-1-95	1975
52	1974	John Philip Sousa Medal .	63-1-96	19??
		Statue created, but no medal was created:
51		Franklin Delano Roosevelt	97
		Voted into Hall of Fame, but no statue or medal was created:
		Louis Dembity Brandeis	98
		Clara Barton	99
		Luther Burbank	100
		Andrew Carnegie	101

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